Notes, help, and praise for WP plugins. I’m not a programmer and didn’t write any of these, they’re mostly just a place to put my notes.
We were having trouble with a site's memory limits. We had a dozen or so plugins running, but nothing out of the ordinary, and we kept hitting memory limits. What to do? Switch hosts.
Want to keep your readers on your site longer? Break up your long posts and put them in a series.
I just heard of a big sale over at Envato the company behind one of my favorite theme sites ThemeForest: WordPress Pack. A bundle of WordPress themes, plugins, and help guides.
A theme was breaking because of a jQuery conflict with a plugin. I was using the GD Star Rating plugin and I was using the Studio Box theme from imaginem. I finally found the solution.
With shortcodes, you can add a quick Buy Now or Add to Cart button directly in a post/page on your site.
Rather than having code in your editor put it in a page template. Especially if the code is page specific. In this way, we clean up the page editing area and make it "unbreakable" for users who are in there adding content and don't want to have to not watch out and break code. We [...]
Different backgrounds on different pages? Of course, but I didn't know it'd be this easy.
The WordPress E-Commerce plugin is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart plugin that works well and is easy to use. In this screencast, I walk through adding new products and adding images.
Depending on your hosting environment, you may have run into time-outs or errors when trying to upload large files in WordPress. I used two plugins: myFTP and Add from Server to solve the problem.
As often happens, a client wants a link to an external site in a menu list. Sure, I could make a custom (manual) bullet list and make the page names and the links to them or the categories and their links and then just put the name and link to the external site in between. But that wouldn't be pretty.
The fabulous NextGen Gallery was maxing (timing) out when uploading zip files. My server said it could only handle 2 MB uploads, so I went searching. Most help said to make changes to the .htaccess file, but I did that and I think my host has something set up (suexec or something) that doesn't allow [...]
Captions for images are tricky enough, then add text alignment (wrapping) and CSS and it's a recipe for disaster. Using the "Image Caption" plugin for WordPress and the simple alignment tool in WordPress, I'll walk through aligning images, their captions, and the surrounding text.
Business Capital has a nice horizontal menu with drop-downs. Most of them are just (parent) pages with children and then grandchildren. Fine, good, works fine. But either it was a glitch or just too late at night, but when on a sibling page, the drop-downs for that parent no longer dropped down. Hmm. Tried some [...]
Tired of waiting for "Save and Continue Editing" to save and then, well, continue? Ajax Post Save saves the contents of your WordPress post using Ajax so it's zippy, no page reloading, and you can view your site for updates (in another tab/window) almost immediately. A huge time-saver when doing nit-picky edits on a post [...]
A client wanted a glossary on her site so that keywords would link to more description of those words. She wanted some "bubble" hover over/pop-up text and/or a link to a full definition at a glossary page.